Presenting a model to assess the risk of explosives warehouse hazards using the combined Aras-Shannon’s Entropy methods in a fuzzy environment

Explosives storage is considered to be one of the most dangerous working parts of mines where the people working there are exposed to all kinds of physical, chemical and psychological risks and injuries that can have a negative effect on their health; Therefore, the current research was conducted in this direction and with the aim of providing a model for risk assessment of the dangers in these warehouses.

First, using the Fine-Kinney risk assessment method, the effective criteria in determining the risks of explosives warehouse, including the Consequently, probability and exposure, were identified, and then the weight of each criterion was calculated using Shannon's entropy method. Finally, the risks of this job were determined and prioritized using the ARAS method.

Based on Shannon's entropy method calculations, among the three investigated criteria, the Consequence criterion with a weight of 0.61 was assigned the most weight. Also, among the various risks investigated, the use of any flame-producing devices in the warehouse (R14), Not using special tools while opening the box of explosives (R17) and opening the boxes inside the warehouse (R7) were determined as the most important risks of explosives warehouses.

In this study, the Consequence was determined as the most important criterion, and the use of any flame-producing devices in the warehouse was determined as the most important risk. The proposed method can be used as a risk assessment method to identify the risks in the warehouse of explosives.